Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Double exposure

I never thought I’d write these words.

I never thought I’d write these words.

I never thought I’d write these words. This book is unclassifiable. It belongs to a whole new genre. The field of literature has been extended! And I saw it happen.

Martin Gayford, who writes for The Spectator and whom I’ve never met, kept a diary during the seven months he spent sitting for the painter Lucian Freud in 2003/4.

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